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Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams

By : Sathish Veerapandian, Harsharanjeet Kaur, Ashok Madhvarayan, Sriram Rajamanickam
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Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams

By: Sathish Veerapandian, Harsharanjeet Kaur, Ashok Madhvarayan, Sriram Rajamanickam

Overview of this book

The outbreak of the pandemic has forced the world to embrace remote working and the modern style of virtual business. However, end users may find it challenging to cope with this sudden change in working style, not aware of all the features and remote working tools available to make their life easy. Microsoft Teams is an exceptional platform, adopted by many organizations for unified communication and collaboration, and this book will help you to make the most of its capabilities. Complete with step-by-step explanations and screenshots, this book guides you through the topics that you'll find useful in your daily use of Teams. You'll learn how to manage your teams and projects with Microsoft Teams in a structured and organized way. The book provides hands-on information with a focus on the end user side to help corporate users to increase productivity and become a Microsoft Teams superuser. Finally, you'll explore the most effective ways of using the app with best practices and tips and tricks for making the most of the features available for your scenario. By the end of this Microsoft Teams book, you'll have mastered Microsoft Teams and be fully equipped as a modern collaboration end user to effectively increase your remote work productivity.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1 – Managing Your Meetings, Projects, and Workforce
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Section 2 – Collaboration, Events, and Communication
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Section 3 – All about Security, Client Automation, Teams Etiquette, and Tips and Tricks

Creating a team – proper naming standards

In this topic, we will see the strategies that can be used and the decisions that can be made by an admin to create a team in Microsoft Teams. Firstly, in most cases, we do not need to create a team. Often, a team has already been created and we must join it. But if you do need to create a team, it's better to create one with some naming standards.

The following are some examples of team creation with some naming standards:

  • Setting up a naming prefix or suffix for an organization with an organization code
  • Setting up a naming prefix or suffix for a business unit and department, both with the business code and department code
  • Setting up a naming prefix or suffix for the location with the location code
  • Setting up a naming prefix or suffix for the process or project with the process or project code

Behind the scenes, when a team is created, an Office 365 group is created in the backend. A group naming policy...